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By the middle of last year, organisations across the UK had woken up to the threat of DDoS attacks that had, by November, increased in frequency by a massive 91 percent over Q1 2017 and 35 percent over Q2 figures.

It's critical for service providers to raise awareness regarding the importance of delivering VoIP, whether over mobile or fixed Internet networks, not just cost-efficiently but securely. As connectivity expands, so do the threats.

In June last year, a report from EfficientIP revealed that 76 percent of organisations around the world suffered DNS-based attacks and almost a third of UK organisations experienced data exfiltration via DNS.

Amidst a major rise in zero-day malware attacks in Q4 2017, researchers have observed how hackers are increasingly using Microsoft Office documents as carriers to deliver malicious payloads in enterprise systems.

The hospitality industry has become an unlikely front line in the cyber-security battle, as a combination of desirable personal data, high-net worth individuals and complex network topography has seen attacks rise significantly.

Amid reports of Russian hackers influencing elections, Chinese hackers pilfering state secrets, and North Korea launching ransomware attacks, it would be easy to underestimate Iran's potential as a cyber-threat to the US.

Attackers were found exploiting a zero-day Telegram app vulnerability in order to make the names and extensions of malicious files appear more legitimate, in hopes that users who received these files would more willingly open them.

Most ransomware victims hit more than once, and don't have defences. Industry adopting AI that deploys deep learning neural network machine learning is predictive by looking for and identifying the techniques scammers use.

Shipping giant and NotPetya victim Maersk was forced to replace tens of thousands of servers and computers in the aftermath of the 17 June ransomware attack, the company's charman said in Davos at the World Economic Forum.

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